Grey Cabinet by Breg Hanssen for Vij5, 2014

This distinctive cabinet, specially designed around the material NewspaperWood, is characterised by a sound and finely detailed construction. It is 3 doors wide and 1 door high, and made for the coloured NewspaperWood series. The specific NewspaperWood in this unique item is made from the Italian newspaper ‘La Gazetta della Sport’.
NewspaperWood is a new material invented by Mieke Meijer, developed together with the Dutch design label Vij5 and now produced and distributed by a new NewspaperWood company. It turns newspapers, which are made from wood, into wood again.When a NewspaperWood log is cut, the layers of paper appear like lines of a wood grain or the rings of a tree and therefore resemble the aesthetic of real wood.
Breg Hanssen, the designer of the Framed cabinet, was fascinated especially by the indeterminable but distinct colour of the NewspaperWood material. To emphasize this quality he decided to incorporate NewspaperWood into a piece of furniture by combining it with contrasting colours. With this, he literally ‘frames’ the material in coated steel. The cabinets are built out of a solid steel frame which can be delivered in different variations and colours.